Dress

Description

Dress or overdress, of pale silk woven with a white trailing floral pattern, altered from an earlier dress of c.1780: British, c. late 1790s

Museum reference

A.1977.821

Collection

Fashion and Textiles

Object name

Dress, Overdress

Production information

Great Britain, United Kingdom, Northern Europe

Date

Late 1790s

Materials

Silk brocade, Linen

Physical description

Sugar pink silk brocaded in white with trailing flower pattern; bodice lined in linen

Associations

Maker of underdress: Zillah Halls